Michael Stipe Quotes

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

I used to like whiskey. But it's been a long time since I've been drunk.

He [Peter the Great] took his bottle heartily, so must all the company; for when he was merry himself he loved to see everybody so; though at the same time he could not endure habitual drinkers, for such he thought unfit for business.

I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer.

How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter.

I know I can get to the stage where I'm drinking a lot. I tend to be rotten and groggy all day and hanging out for the next drink and five o'clock, ping! I have to just stop.

Tequila. Straight. There's a real polite drink. You keep drinking until you finally take one more and it just won't go down. Then you know you've reached your limit.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

I had never, ever drunk beer in high school, and by the time I got to Tech we were having these parties out in the cotton fields and getting so drunk. I was the champion beer drinker; suddenly I was pouring it down my throat... Insane! Insane!

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

I don't drink as much as I use to could.

I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home.

I'm not a heavy drinker, I can sometimes go for hours without touching a drop.

I drink for the honorable purpose of getting bagged.

Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk.

I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter.

He's so full of alcohol, if you put a lighted wick in his mouth he'd burn for three days.

The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman who hiccoughs at his elegant dinner-table to the sot who makes a bed of the gutter.

I do miss the social aspect of sitting in a pub with a pint but you know what when I get down to it I never went for a pint. I went to a pub to get f**ked up. If it was just going for a pint that would be ok but once I start I just can't stop.

I take the juice of two bottles of whisky.

I always drank, from when it was legal for me to drink. And there was never a time for me when the goal wasn't to get as hammered as I could possibly afford to. I never understood social drinking, that's always seemed to me like kissing your sister.